Daikatana goes open source! NVIDIA releases the 960, VP updates the Witcher, and GOG discovers midi-chlorians. Then Motorbike faces our CHAIRQUISITION! All this, plus your hate mail.

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Patreon update

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• https://www.patreon.com/linuxgamecast
  

Steam

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• http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
  
• https://steamdb.info/sub/58994/history/
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/233130/
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/239140
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/343120/
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/343740/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/327640/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/258050/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
  

News

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• http://maxwell.nvidia.com/gtx-960
  
• http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Items/ci/27172/N/3823164311
  
• http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/nvidias-gtx970-has-a-rather-serious-memory-allocation-bug/
  
• http://techreport.com/blog/27143/here-another-reason-the-geforce-gtx-970-is-slower-than-the-gtx-980
  
• http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue
  
• https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.7.35
  
• http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces
  
• http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2t44kb/virtual_programming_didnt_abandon_fixing_witcher/
  
• https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues/issues/89#issuecomment-70857835
  
• https://bitbucket.org/DGibson/daikatana-1.3/wiki/Home
  
• http://spacestation13.com/2015/01/open-sourced-ss13/
  

Review

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• http://store.steampowered.com/app/343120/
  

Hate Mail

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Steam News :

Stats

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

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• Why are we using Flash in 2015?
  
• Same reason they use rm -rf $VARIABLE/* in shell scripts?
  
• The Download stats says Europe downloads a lot more than the US
  
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  • Yet the graphic doesn’t seem to reflect that.
    
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    • Looks like they fixed it!
      
    
    
    
  
  
  

Shadow Warrior Mac and Linux Testing

https://steamdb.info/sub/58994/history/

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• Additional Notes: The will of a true ninja warrior and an appreciation of Wang jokes.
  
• Looks like it could be a decently fun FPS.    Hopefully they’ll make with the keys once the linux version drops
  

Dying Light

http://store.steampowered.com/app/239140

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• Remember kids. Don’t pre-order a gorram thing!
  
• It’s official: http://steamcommunity.com/games/239140/announcements/detail/121929834594720333
  
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 / AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 290 (2GB VRAM)
  
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  • That’s a bold claim you made.    Care to back that up?
    
  
  
  

Motorbike

http://store.steampowered.com/app/343120/

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• The sting from this was seeing Road Redemption in the “more like this†section.
  
• I’m not sure ubuntu 10.12 is a thing.  Ubuntu from a parallel universe?
  

InMind VR

http://store.steampowered.com/app/343740/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

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• It’s the occulus version of Microcosm!   But with no trippy Rick Wakeman synthesizer solos
  
• It’s cheap as free though, so if you have Rift, have at.
  
• It looks like neat sauce but not  fan of wearing shite on my head organ.
  

CaesarIA

http://store.steampowered.com/app/327640/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

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• Requires the elusive 1500 processor
  
• That looks EXACTLY as I remember Caesar III looking like
  
• Early access free to play.   Way to do it right.
  
• It doesn’t work very well, and by that I mean it’s barely even playable.
  
• I didn’t have anyone living in the city yet and 2 of the vacant spots just caught fire.
  
• When my population reached 10 people, half of them turned into Shadow citizens.
  
• Tried several times to change resolution, game threw a buggy dialog message saying I needed to restart.
  
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  • Needless to say it didn’t work.
    
  
  
  
• Good thing it’s free!
  

Survivor Squad

http://store.steampowered.com/app/258050/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

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• Door Kickers meets Left4Dead and DayZ, with rogue-like elements.
  
• I’m getting some dead sky flashbacks
  

News:

960 announced

http://maxwell.nvidia.com/gtx-960

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Items/ci/27172/N/3823164311

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• *looks at 980* That’s adorable!
  
• All things considered, it fits the niche left between the 750TI and the 970.
  
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  • Because there is still a $200 difference between those two.
    
  
  
  
• I’m interested to see what the 950 looks like.
  
• But I wonder…
  

Something about the 970 … I forget

http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/nvidias-gtx970-has-a-rather-serious-memory-allocation-bug/

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• Wonder if this affects Linux
  
• Supposedly the top 500M of VRAM on the 970 is bad, causing performance hits
  
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  • They segmented the SSMs on the 970 so it would be different to the 980.
    
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• Hopefully it won’t be a hardware issue as everyone is describing it.
  
• Not that I’ve played any game so far that needs all 4Gigs of VRAM, but I want to think that if the day comes, there’ll be a Driver update to work around this.
  
• This article from TechReport specifically mentions the STRIX and I’m not happy about it!
  
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  • http://techreport.com/blog/27143/here-another-reason-the-geforce-gtx-970-is-slower-than-the-gtx-980
    
  
  
  
• PCPer has a statement from NVidia saying the very same thing happens on the 980: http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue
  
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  • Which contradicts what everyone else was saying.
    
  • And they don’t really mention the memory speed drops anywhere.
    
  
  
  
• Video example
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQE6p5r1tYE
  

WINE 1.7.35

https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.7.35

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• Beginnings of OpenGL core profile support
  
• DirectWire support for glyph placement
  
• More WebM things
  
• And another 56 bugfixes.
  
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  • Including one that now let’s you download games in Origin.
    
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    • Why would you want to do that, I have no clue. But you can, now!
      
    
    
    
  
  
  

I sense a disturbance…

http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces

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• Well, not really.   This is just a Dosbox port.
  
• That said, it’s kind of funny that all these abandoned star wars games are finding new homes on linux systems
  
• GOG really needs to step up and release a Desura/Steam like client.
  

Still witching

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2t44kb/virtual_programming_didnt_abandon_fixing_witcher/

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• On one hand-organ i’m glad they are still fixing their busted TECH but I genuinely hope that was the first and last time we see in on Linux.
  
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• Actually, apparently the Witcher 2 port is uncovering kernel bugs
  
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  • https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues/issues/89#issuecomment-70857835
    
  
  
  

John Romero’s Worst Game is now open sauce

https://bitbucket.org/DGibson/daikatana-1.3/wiki/Home

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• You still need the old game assets.    I wonder though, who actually kept this turd?
  
• Also includes a freebsd build for your convenience
  
• You know, I never actually played this game.    In fact growing up I had never heard of it.
  

Open-Sourced SS13

http://spacestation13.com/2015/01/open-sourced-ss13/

https://github.com/ss13remake/ss13remake

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• Supposedly an MMO for something awful goons
  
• Basically, the dev’s can maintain the project no-mo so they’re booting it to the community
  
• And we all know how well that turns out *cough*naturalselection2*cough*
  

For it is not our wisdom but the wisdom of the only true review metric. Hallowed are the Chairs.

Scale:

- Nooope

- Not sure if want

- Check it out

- Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Dumb arse bike game (Motorbike)

Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/343120/

Devel: baKno Games

Engine: Unity

Price: $/€ 4.99

Wazzat: A casual bike skills game full of action and real physics dynamics. Motorbike comes with 100 original tracks, thousands of online tracks and a track editor to create your own tracks and share with other players.

Makes with the working

V-

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• Some days I wonder why I still keep a swap partition.
  
• Thursday was not that day.
  

J-

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• This thing is a giant memory leak
  

P-

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• There is a memory leak, certain levels just outright crash the game
  

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

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• The sounds are complete rubbish
  

J-

P-

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• The sound crackles and pops like crazy
  
• The bike sounds like someone recorded the engine noise with their cellphone
  
• Graphics are about as stock as stock Unity graphics get
  

Total-

Control

V-

J-

P-

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• Fucking shitty android ports
  

Total-

FUN

V-

J-

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• This game gave me cancer
  

P-

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• It’s so bad, at one point I lost my shit and just started laughing maniacally
  

Total-

Final -

Hate Mail:

Mouse

http://slexy.org/view/s2LxJ74B5b

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• The profile does change, but I couldn’t get it to send out the notification either through the OSD or Audio.
  
• I am using KDE and pulseaudio
  

Big brains

http://slexy.org/view/s20elxQBWE

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• We’ve gone over this at length.   Your fault for not paying attention
  
• Brad is a way of life …..Brad